Depends on the species of bat. Some bats hunt at dusk and dawn and do fine with the streetlights. Some bats hunt in the dead of the night and are driven out of areas with streetlights. Artificial white light is effectively the same as habitat destruction for those species.
By the definition I was taught in middle school life science, mammals are warm blooded, have hair, produce milk, and breathe air.
for dolphins, platypuses, and roaches: 1) warm blooded - yep, yep, nope 2) have hair - yep (in utero), yep, nope 3) give milk - yep, yep, maybe (is it really "milk"?) 4) breath air - yep, yep, yep
Dolphins aren't so different from us anyway. Similar bones, blood, lungs, brains, teeth, eyes, skin rather than scales, bilateral symmetry, language use, tribalism, love to eat fish, rape, infanticide. What's so different?
Why? What obligation does Apple have to give money to the government outside the legal minimum in taxes they're required to pay? If Apple can take advantage of a loophole that allows them to legally avoid paying taxes, more power to them. If you're paying more taxes than you are required to, you're an idiot.
Maybe so, but how does that jive with:
TC: For a casual observer who hasn’t been a user of our products, the thing that they might miss is how different Apple is versus other technology companies. A financial person just looking at revenues and profits may think, They’re good [at making money]. But that’s not who we are. We’re a group of people who are trying to change the world for the better, that’s who we are."
Apple exported hundreds of billions of dollars of profit from the US to foreign holdings in such a way that NO government would tax that money. Apple didn't give it to charity. They didn't use it to fund scholarships. They didn't start a foundation to cure diseases or house the homeless, or any other purpose that could "change the world for the better". They didn't even pay dividends to investors. Instead, they stuck it under their mattress.
The dummy is the autopilot. It will be vinyl and sport a smug grin. The real question is, how will they convince Julie Hagerty to go along as co-pilot to re-inflate it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh, I forgot about the 32Bit edition. That never should have seen the light of day. Microsoft really caved to computer manufacturer pressure there. I upgraded several people's machines to 64 bit. As I recall, it used the same license key but you had to acquire the 64Bit install DVD.
I think what happen mostly was that hardware got better. Vista was a decent OS, just too resource intensive, and Microsoft allowed vendors to sell machines with vista that couldn't run the OS as configured.
When Vista came out, I had bunches of my users bring their personal "Vista Ready" laptops to me saying they hated the computer, it was slow, etc. Every single one had basic Intel graphics and maybe 2 Gigs of RAM. I'd turn off Aero Peek and recommend an upgrade to 4 Gigs, and then the computers were fine.
That's a bullshit statistic. The average lifespan was about 30 years due to high infant mortality rates, accidents, and infections disease. A person lucky enough to avoid those, and presumably didn't starve to death, could expect to live 60 to 70 years. The modern increase in average lifespan in developed countries is because infant mortality is WAY down, accidents are less fatal because we have emergency rooms, most infectious diseases are curable, preventable, or manageable with antibiotics or vaccines, and we largely don't let people starve to death any more. It is not because we are generally more healthy. We are arguably less healthy due to poor diets, lack of exercise, and reduced natural selection.
collectively pay for this advertisement, or did just one of them fund this WSJ piece and the editors threw in the other names to make it look balanced? I'm guessing Anaplan Inc paid for it since their name was mentioned first and last.
If voting is mandatory does that mean violating the secret ballot, or do I just have to show up? Does it mean I have to vote yes or no every time a local restaurant wants an exemption to allow Sunday liquor sales, regardless of whether or not I live in the immediate neighborhood? Choose between two city council candidates I've never heard of and never spoken to? Vote yea or nay for every state constitutional amendment, even when I'm not decided on what I think is best? What's the penalty if I forget to check a box?
The last thing I want is people voting who don't know what they are voting for nor care about the outcome. In our current system people have to be at least a little motivated to cast a vote, so they will at least have a little knowledge of the issues or candidates. I want voters to have just a little skin in the game.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. - Douglas Adams
Restaurants will have to invest in wireless card readers the servers carry to the tables. The technology has existed for over a decade. The first time I saw it was in Europe in '05.
How do they make money? That's simple: Azure, Office 365, Active Directory.
While nobody was looking, Microsoft developed a powerful and flexible cloud computing platform in Azure that integrates with businesses Active Directory and local network. It has warts, but the product is improving rapidly.
Office 365 solves business's email infrastructure woes, works well with all mobile devices, runs Sharepoint, gives all employees video conferencing tools to rival WebEx and Go2Meeting, provides all of the Office licensing they need, and does it for a very reasonable price.
Active Directory makes it easy to configure and set policies on every Windows desktop and server in a way that settings only have to be done one time. I'm sure the same could be done with LDAP, but nearly as quickly and easily. AD integrates with Azure, Office 365, and a large portion of third-party services. As a result, businesses run Windows because it lets everything work together with very little fuss, and the employees are productive. And productivity is what it is all about.
A new bus design with every new generation throughout the 90's SCSI instead of internal expansion slots round mice proprietary connectors everywhere replaced Mac Pro towers with unmaintainable, but aesthetically pleasing, trash-can Mac Pros with no expansion capabilities replaced maintainable Power PC MAC tower and iMac designs with unmaintainable iMac designs that save 1/2 an inch of thickness Wireless mice with the charging ports on the bottoms of the mice so that you can't charge the mouse while you use it quiet or fan-less designs that can't dissipate heat efficiently enough for unthrottled operation. soldered-in hard drives soldered-in memory chips batteries that are not user replaceable. proprietary screws. SCREWS!!!
Also, please note that the standards you mention, (USB, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11) were not invented at Apple. Not a one. Meanwhile, they stifle their own really great inventions (e.g. firewire, Final Cut Pro). Apple makes great technology. Then, they somehow manage to twist things around that it just makes it a pain in my ass to support.
Yes, I am bitter. 20 years in IT dealing with Apple's hostility to business and education customers will do that to a person.
One place I worked it cost $18,000 for us to run fiber about 1/4 of a mile. We had to bore underground because the incumbent power company wanted to charge so much in attachment fees that it was cheaper to go underground, despite the fact that this was on private property and the poles serviced no other customers. Extrapolating out, it would be ballpark $288,000 to $360,000 for your 4 to 5 mile loop. But of course, every situation is different.
There is more to this story here. Health insurance can't cost more that 10% of your income: Thanks Obama. So how can they not afford FB's own health plan?
That's not how it really works. The 10% affordability test only applies to individual healthcare plans. If your employer offers their employees affordable individual coverage it does not matter what it would cost to cover dependents.
For example, my employer pays for most of my monthly health insurance premium, all but for about 50 bucks or so per month. That is easily within the affordability test, so I don't qualify for subsidies on the exchanges. They do not pay anything towards my wife and daughter's health insurance premiums, so to cover them costs around 20% of my taxable household income.
My wife's employer does not offer health benefits, so she would be eligible for for subsidies on the exchanges if my employer did not offer coverage for my dependents. The same is true for my daughter. If my employer did not offer "affordable" coverage, I could insure her with subsidies.
I could go straight to the exchanges for my dependents, but then I loose the 15% tax advantage I get for paying for insurance premiums through my employer pre-tax. As a result, the only health care plans available to me through the exchanges that cost less in premiums carry such high deductibles, co-pay rates, and max out-of-pocket limits as to make them unreasonably expensive to use. That could be a reasonable gamble for my healthy 6-year-old daughter, but not for my 42-year old wife.
It's pretty well established that e-cigarettes are not harmless. No doctor in the world is going to tell patients to keep on vaping until the science is really nailed down. Every study to date shows that they put out carcinogenic and toxic chemicals at some level. Formaldehyde, ethylene glycol, and diethylene gylcol are frequently found in e-cigs. Nicotine as well, who's carcinogenic potential is inconclusive, is absolutely toxic and is undeniably addictive. On the other hand, e-cigarettes are probably less harmful than cigarettes.
If companies extract a drug (nicotine) from an already regulated product (tobacco) and repackage it (e-cigarettes) in a way to replace an already regulated drug delivery system (cigarettes), than this "new product" should fall under the same regulations as the old product. It's a no brainier. The onus should be on the e-cig manufacturers to make the case that their product is safe, or safer, or less addictive and should be regulated more lightly.
Where is the line when it becomes justified? I don't advocating for forced vaccinations, but a little coercion is certainly in order. I do not see religious or philosophical objections as legitimate excuses for allowing unvaccinated children to attend public school.
Chickenpox kills about 0.003% of victims and hospitalizes about 0.26%. The overall death rate is low, but one quarter of a percent for hospitalizations makes for a lot of unnecessary strain on healthcare systems, especially for a disease that will infect around 95% of unvaccinated individuals.
Measles, besides the immediate death rate (about 0.15% in the US), Encephalitis (0.1% in the US), and hospitalization rate (about 25% in the US) brings a potential for a delayed neurological disease that is 100% fatal for those stricken with it. Around 1.7% of infants who get measles and 0.07% of children under 5 who contract measles will later develop this neurological disease. The mortality rate for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is 100%. The mortality risk for individuals who contract measles as infants is the most concerning for me because it can happen before they are old enough to get the vaccine.
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Depends on the species of bat. Some bats hunt at dusk and dawn and do fine with the streetlights. Some bats hunt in the dead of the night and are driven out of areas with streetlights. Artificial white light is effectively the same as habitat destruction for those species.
By the definition I was taught in middle school life science, mammals are warm blooded, have hair, produce milk, and breathe air.
for dolphins, platypuses, and roaches:
1) warm blooded - yep, yep, nope
2) have hair - yep (in utero), yep, nope
3) give milk - yep, yep, maybe (is it really "milk"?)
4) breath air - yep, yep, yep
Dolphins aren't so different from us anyway. Similar bones, blood, lungs, brains, teeth, eyes, skin rather than scales, bilateral symmetry, language use, tribalism, love to eat fish, rape, infanticide. What's so different?
And is crucially important to establishing believable science fiction movie settings.
https://typesetinthefuture.com...
You should have just watched the one on Arial. It was just like the one about Helvetica, but a free copy comes with every TV.
I agreed. You can polish a turd, but when you are done it's still a turd. It's like putting lipstick on a pig.
Burns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns) or Bruns (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DsPjR_kAAAAJ&hl=en)?
I rather suspect C M Bruns of the Environmental Systems Research Institute is OK with renewable energy.
... The GGP was arguing that homeopathy works because small amounts of lead had impacts as significant as large ones...
Or, the GGGP was being facetious. Poe's law.
Yes.
https://www.irishtimes.com/bus...
http://fortune.com/2012/04/29/...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.finfacts.ie/Irish_f...
http://dukeundergraduatelawmag...
https://www.thecasecentre.org/...
...your taxes then?
Why? What obligation does Apple have to give money to the government outside the legal minimum in taxes they're required to pay? If Apple can take advantage of a loophole that allows them to legally avoid paying taxes, more power to them. If you're paying more taxes than you are required to, you're an idiot.
Maybe so, but how does that jive with:
TC: For a casual observer who hasn’t been a user of our products, the thing that they might miss is how different Apple is versus other technology companies. A financial person just looking at revenues and profits may think, They’re good [at making money]. But that’s not who we are. We’re a group of people who are trying to change the world for the better, that’s who we are."
Apple exported hundreds of billions of dollars of profit from the US to foreign holdings in such a way that NO government would tax that money. Apple didn't give it to charity. They didn't use it to fund scholarships. They didn't start a foundation to cure diseases or house the homeless, or any other purpose that could "change the world for the better". They didn't even pay dividends to investors. Instead, they stuck it under their mattress.
The dummy is the autopilot. It will be vinyl and sport a smug grin. The real question is, how will they convince Julie Hagerty to go along as co-pilot to re-inflate it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh, I forgot about the 32Bit edition. That never should have seen the light of day. Microsoft really caved to computer manufacturer pressure there. I upgraded several people's machines to 64 bit. As I recall, it used the same license key but you had to acquire the 64Bit install DVD.
I think what happen mostly was that hardware got better. Vista was a decent OS, just too resource intensive, and Microsoft allowed vendors to sell machines with vista that couldn't run the OS as configured.
When Vista came out, I had bunches of my users bring their personal "Vista Ready" laptops to me saying they hated the computer, it was slow, etc. Every single one had basic Intel graphics and maybe 2 Gigs of RAM. I'd turn off Aero Peek and recommend an upgrade to 4 Gigs, and then the computers were fine.
Here's a funnier example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's a bullshit statistic. The average lifespan was about 30 years due to high infant mortality rates, accidents, and infections disease. A person lucky enough to avoid those, and presumably didn't starve to death, could expect to live 60 to 70 years. The modern increase in average lifespan in developed countries is because infant mortality is WAY down, accidents are less fatal because we have emergency rooms, most infectious diseases are curable, preventable, or manageable with antibiotics or vaccines, and we largely don't let people starve to death any more. It is not because we are generally more healthy. We are arguably less healthy due to poor diets, lack of exercise, and reduced natural selection.
collectively pay for this advertisement, or did just one of them fund this WSJ piece and the editors threw in the other names to make it look balanced? I'm guessing Anaplan Inc paid for it since their name was mentioned first and last.
If voting is mandatory does that mean violating the secret ballot, or do I just have to show up? Does it mean I have to vote yes or no every time a local restaurant wants an exemption to allow Sunday liquor sales, regardless of whether or not I live in the immediate neighborhood? Choose between two city council candidates I've never heard of and never spoken to? Vote yea or nay for every state constitutional amendment, even when I'm not decided on what I think is best? What's the penalty if I forget to check a box?
The last thing I want is people voting who don't know what they are voting for nor care about the outcome. In our current system people have to be at least a little motivated to cast a vote, so they will at least have a little knowledge of the issues or candidates. I want voters to have just a little skin in the game.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
- Douglas Adams
Restaurants will have to invest in wireless card readers the servers carry to the tables. The technology has existed for over a decade. The first time I saw it was in Europe in '05.
How do they make money? That's simple: Azure, Office 365, Active Directory.
While nobody was looking, Microsoft developed a powerful and flexible cloud computing platform in Azure that integrates with businesses Active Directory and local network. It has warts, but the product is improving rapidly.
Office 365 solves business's email infrastructure woes, works well with all mobile devices, runs Sharepoint, gives all employees video conferencing tools to rival WebEx and Go2Meeting, provides all of the Office licensing they need, and does it for a very reasonable price.
Active Directory makes it easy to configure and set policies on every Windows desktop and server in a way that settings only have to be done one time. I'm sure the same could be done with LDAP, but nearly as quickly and easily. AD integrates with Azure, Office 365, and a large portion of third-party services. As a result, businesses run Windows because it lets everything work together with very little fuss, and the employees are productive. And productivity is what it is all about.
A new bus design with every new generation throughout the 90's
SCSI instead of internal expansion slots
round mice
proprietary connectors everywhere
replaced Mac Pro towers with unmaintainable, but aesthetically pleasing, trash-can Mac Pros with no expansion capabilities
replaced maintainable Power PC MAC tower and iMac designs with unmaintainable iMac designs that save 1/2 an inch of thickness
Wireless mice with the charging ports on the bottoms of the mice so that you can't charge the mouse while you use it
quiet or fan-less designs that can't dissipate heat efficiently enough for unthrottled operation.
soldered-in hard drives
soldered-in memory chips
batteries that are not user replaceable.
proprietary screws. SCREWS!!!
Also, please note that the standards you mention, (USB, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11) were not invented at Apple. Not a one. Meanwhile, they stifle their own really great inventions (e.g. firewire, Final Cut Pro). Apple makes great technology. Then, they somehow manage to twist things around that it just makes it a pain in my ass to support.
Yes, I am bitter. 20 years in IT dealing with Apple's hostility to business and education customers will do that to a person.
One place I worked it cost $18,000 for us to run fiber about 1/4 of a mile. We had to bore underground because the incumbent power company wanted to charge so much in attachment fees that it was cheaper to go underground, despite the fact that this was on private property and the poles serviced no other customers. Extrapolating out, it would be ballpark $288,000 to $360,000 for your 4 to 5 mile loop. But of course, every situation is different.
There is more to this story here. Health insurance can't cost more that 10% of your income: Thanks Obama. So how can they not afford FB's own health plan?
That's not how it really works. The 10% affordability test only applies to individual healthcare plans. If your employer offers their employees affordable individual coverage it does not matter what it would cost to cover dependents.
For example, my employer pays for most of my monthly health insurance premium, all but for about 50 bucks or so per month. That is easily within the affordability test, so I don't qualify for subsidies on the exchanges. They do not pay anything towards my wife and daughter's health insurance premiums, so to cover them costs around 20% of my taxable household income.
My wife's employer does not offer health benefits, so she would be eligible for for subsidies on the exchanges if my employer did not offer coverage for my dependents. The same is true for my daughter. If my employer did not offer "affordable" coverage, I could insure her with subsidies.
I could go straight to the exchanges for my dependents, but then I loose the 15% tax advantage I get for paying for insurance premiums through my employer pre-tax. As a result, the only health care plans available to me through the exchanges that cost less in premiums carry such high deductibles, co-pay rates, and max out-of-pocket limits as to make them unreasonably expensive to use. That could be a reasonable gamble for my healthy 6-year-old daughter, but not for my 42-year old wife.
It's pretty well established that e-cigarettes are not harmless. No doctor in the world is going to tell patients to keep on vaping until the science is really nailed down. Every study to date shows that they put out carcinogenic and toxic chemicals at some level. Formaldehyde, ethylene glycol, and diethylene gylcol are frequently found in e-cigs. Nicotine as well, who's carcinogenic potential is inconclusive, is absolutely toxic and is undeniably addictive. On the other hand, e-cigarettes are probably less harmful than cigarettes.
If companies extract a drug (nicotine) from an already regulated product (tobacco) and repackage it (e-cigarettes) in a way to replace an already regulated drug delivery system (cigarettes), than this "new product" should fall under the same regulations as the old product. It's a no brainier. The onus should be on the e-cig manufacturers to make the case that their product is safe, or safer, or less addictive and should be regulated more lightly.
Where is the line when it becomes justified? I don't advocating for forced vaccinations, but a little coercion is certainly in order. I do not see religious or philosophical objections as legitimate excuses for allowing unvaccinated children to attend public school.
Chickenpox kills about 0.003% of victims and hospitalizes about 0.26%. The overall death rate is low, but one quarter of a percent for hospitalizations makes for a lot of unnecessary strain on healthcare systems, especially for a disease that will infect around 95% of unvaccinated individuals.
Measles, besides the immediate death rate (about 0.15% in the US), Encephalitis (0.1% in the US), and hospitalization rate (about 25% in the US) brings a potential for a delayed neurological disease that is 100% fatal for those stricken with it. Around 1.7% of infants who get measles and 0.07% of children under 5 who contract measles will later develop this neurological disease. The mortality rate for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is 100%. The mortality risk for individuals who contract measles as infants is the most concerning for me because it can happen before they are old enough to get the vaccine.
Pay phone.
Think that's funny? Go ask the Golgafrincams what happens when you rid your society of telephone sanitizers.